Ramakrishna Mission Hospital, Khar West

Ramakrishna Mission Hospital is a 70-bed charitable hospital on 12th Khar Road in Khar West, Mumbai, established in 1924. It is accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) and is open 24 hours a day.The hospital provides free or heavily subsidised treatment and medicines to patients from economically weaker backgrounds, regardless of caste or religion, and has served the Khar Danda Koliwada, Bandra East and Santacruz Golibar neighbourhoods for a century. Homoeopathic treatment is offered alongside allopathic care.Cardiac and vascular services are unusually broad for a charitable hospital of this size, covering cardiology, interventional cardiology, preventive cardiology and rehabilitation, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, endovascular surgery, neurovascular surgery and vascular ultrasound.Thoracic services cover thoracic surgery, thoracic oncology and thoracic radiology.Other departments include general medicine, orthopaedics, paediatrics with treatment of childhood asthma and tuberculosis, obstetrics and gynaecology, ENT, urology, nephrology, neurology, diabetology, dermatology and dermatosurgery, psychiatry, allergy and immunology with allergy testing, and dentistry with dental surgery.An intensive care unit, operation theatres and a clinical pathology laboratory operate on site.Ramakrishna Mission Hospital is located on 12th Khar Road, Khar West, Mumbai 400052, near Sacred Heart School. Khar sits between Bandra and Santacruz on the western line, and the neighbourhoods the hospital was built to serve - the Koliwada fishing village at Khar Danda, Golibar and the Bandra East settlements - are among the least well provided for in an otherwise affluent part of the city.